Improvement in adjustable fruit-ladders



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VLetters Patent No.V 106,645, daad August 23, 1870..

IMPROVEMENT IN ADJUSTABLE FRUIT-LADDERS.

The Schedule' `referred to in these 1'.|el.tersv Patent and ukingpartici the same' T o all whom, it may concern Be it lknownthat I,SAMUEL WRiGHT, of Hillsborougl|,'Missuuri, have invented a ueivf'anduseful I mprorement in Ladders; and Iy do declare the following to be afull description of thesaine, reference being had to the-annexeddrawingsaud the letters vmarked there'- on.

The nature of my invention consists in providing-a common ladder with anadjustable double brace,-so attached to the. top of the` ladder as topermit it toA vturn and Yadjust itseltin any manner.

C isa lnetallieband,attached to the bottom end of i stile, and runningthe whole length of `the back of the.

ladder', and fastened to the back and endof eaeh'step, and to the'v headof the `stile thus support-ing the Steps. 4

B is a head, made'to turn in the upper end of the ladder.v

A is a double brace-'head, made lof iron, Awith two woodengbraces. v

This brace-head passes through the head B, so as to move'easily on itsjoint.

Now the swivel brace-head A, being made of iron', the. wooden braces maybe driven permanently, and you have a brace'whieh will easily adjustitself to any uneven surface .on which it may be s'et. R v Now. -what Iclaim as my invention, and for which I ask Letters Patent of the UnitedStates granted me, rs

' "The combination of the adjustableheads Aand B, combined and attachedto' the common Vladder,as abore described -and for the purposes setforth.

` SAMUEL WRIGHT.

YWitnesses:

WM; M. ECOLES,

CHARLES H. OHAPIN.

